Questions for Pyalara and response to "Seizing Locality in Jerusalem"

Questions:

1. How do you recruit people to your organization?
2. I assume that the primary goal of Pyalara is long term peace. Does your organization take part in political protests or demonstrations? Or is it more that you try to inform others about what is going on with Palestinian youth?
3. I saw that you have a place for donations, is your funding much like no profit groups? Do you seek individual or institutional monies, like from Arab multinational companies or other institutions supporting Palestine?

Response to "Seizing Locality in Jerusalem:"
The maps in this article, of Jerusalem from past to present, were fascinating. Just looking at the cool old architecture mixed with the modern buildings sitting on hills in the valley in Jerusalem were beautiful! I really like the adobe architecture of the round stone block buildings.

One criticism that I have is that when the author is talking about someone being near the Temple Mount, specifically after the 1967 when the IDF grabbed up the land, the person in the article was talking about how he feels spiritual at the wall. The part that I take issue with is how the person said that he feels close to king David. I think that is kind of bazaar, because king David has been dead for over 2000 years. I realize the significance of the western wall, but it is just foreign to me to think you are close to an ancient celebrity at a wall.

Over all it was a good article. It would be awesome to have a true thorough knowledge of all of the periods of Jerusalem, to be able to piece all the history together. However, a place like that city cannot be memorized like that, because of the thousands of years of history!